What a wonderful week that we have had in Nursery. We have thoroughly enjoyed exploring in our outdoor environment with natural loose parts. We have also been building dens!
In maths, we have been learning about long and short. We measured different animals and objects with cubes and counted the cubes to see which was the longest and which was the shortest. We have also had lots of things in our nursery provision linking to long and short such as making worms out of play dough.
We are continuing to work on our fine motor skills including cutting skills and pencil control. It would be great if your child could continue this at home as well as name writing.
In phonics so far, we have covered the letters m, a, s, d, t, i, n, p, g, o, c, k, u, b and f. We have also been focusing on the initial sound in words e.g. a-a-a apple.
On Thursday, we celebrated VE Day and what a fantastic day that we had. We did lots of activities in nursery, we had fish and chips for dinner and then a family picnic on the school field.
Only 3 more days until our trip to Northumberland Zoo! We are super excited for Wednesday!
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
WOW!
What a very exciting and busy first week back we have had after the Easter holidays. We have welcomed some new friends who have started our Nursery this week! We have been showing our new friends how to play indoors and outdoors as well as settling into routines.
The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring in the outside environment in the gorgeous weather. We made a big den to create shade when playing in the mud kitchen! The children also enjoyed making bird food and hanging it up in the Wildlife Garden. Another activity that the children enjoyed was collecting flowers and making their own lion faces and vases.
This term, our topic is Amazing Animals and this week we have been focusing on zoo animals, getting us ready for our zoo visit on the 14th May. In maths, we have been weighing the different animals with the scales to see which animals were heavy and which animals were light. We have also been learning about Ranger Hamza who goes on eco quests looking for wildlife, plants etc. We went on our own eco quests. The children took pictures on the iPad of the different things that they found and then we shared the pictures together as a class.
The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring in our zoo role play area, showing great teamwork tiger skills!
A big focus this term is fine motor skills, we have been using scissors to cut!
On Thursday 8th May, we will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of VE Day with a family picnic on the school field. Children will be able to wear red, white and blue for school and we would like families to join us on the school field for a picnic on the afternoon from 1:30pm-3pm.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook